Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Telecommunications Directory
Author: Who Owns Whom
Author: Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
Author: Jane's World Railways
Author: Jane'sPublisher: Ihs Global Incorporated
ISBN: 9780710624536
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Contents include - Over 450 railway systems - Organisational structures - Locomotives and powered/non-powered passenger vehicles - Statistics - Traction and rolling stock manufacturers and suppliers of component systems - Signalling and communications systems suppliers - Permanent way equipment and services companies - Workshop, repair and maintenance equipment - Suppliers, manufacturers and service companies - Information technology systems for rail applications - Station equipment - Consultancy services - Leasing companies
Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
Directory of Corporate Affiliations
Author: Japan Directory
Author: LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
Author: Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams
Author: Christopher BoltonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913463
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan’s national and political identity, and its unique fan culture. Covering a remarkable range of texts—from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy—this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre. Contributors: Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba; William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura, Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia; Tamaki Saitô; Thomas Schnellbächer, Berlin Free U. Christopher Bolton is assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is professor of English at DePauw University. Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio University.